{"id":4998,"date":"2011-01-12T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2011-01-12T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T22:13:31","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4998","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But really, why not bowdlerize Twain<\/a>?\u00a0 Christians read a truncated version of the bible.\u00a0 Southerners have their own version of Civil War history.\u00a0 Schoolkids in Texas learn about an America that never was.\u00a0 What else is new?<\/p>\n

So . . . on to more banned book news!<\/p>\n

I asked once before whether a rating system for childrens’ books, something like the movie rating system we’re all familiar with, might calm overprotective parents.\u00a0 This columnist<\/a> wants a book rating system, but he wants to allow only G-rated books in elementary school libraries, up to PG in junior high libraries, and up to R in high school libraries.\u00a0 That still sounds like book-banning to me.\u00a0 All books should be there, but with the more adult-rated books on separate shelves, with some kind of parental-approval check on the rating level of books individual children are allowed to check out.<\/p>\n

In an earlier banned book news roundup<\/a>, I linked to this article by Kristy Colley<\/a>, which, on my initial reading, seemed to accuse the American Library Association of censoring books with pro-heterosexual themes.\u00a0 She contacted me via Twitter to tell me it was more of an academic he said\/she said article, and that it did not express her personal opinion.\u00a0 I apologize for misreading the article.<\/p>\n

A sobering thought about rise of e-readers and e-books (quote follows in case the link<\/a> goes dead):<\/p>\n

The day will come when paper books are banned. Then the sinister intent behind “Kindle” will be understood\u00ad; with the controller\u00ads of the informatio\u00adn age having long since erased intellectu\u00adal freedom in the digital realm (it’s going away right now), E-books will be “burned” by being censored instantly at will, or even removed from the database. Then the fascists will have the total control over history they currently demonstrab\u00adly seek.<\/p>\n

Technology is going to become your worst nightmare.<\/p>\n

“Kindle”? Indeed.<\/p>\n

Crazy? Remember where you read this in 20 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Posted to a Q&A forum: “How can I get a book banned?”<\/a> Shhhh!\u00a0 Nobody answer!<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of the top ten banned science fiction books<\/a>.\u00a0 For me, there’s only one surprise here, Shade’s Children<\/a> by Garth Nix.\u00a0 A banned sci-fi book I haven’t heard of before?\u00a0 You know what my next Nook download’s gonna be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lead story: But really, why not bowdlerize Twain?\u00a0 Christians read a truncated version of the bible.\u00a0 Southerners have their own version of Civil War history.\u00a0 Schoolkids in Texas learn about an America that never was.\u00a0 What else is new? So . . . on to more banned book news! I asked once before whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}